The Varmint is a lost 1917 American comedy silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor, written by Gardner Hunting and Owen Johnson, and starring Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Theodore Roberts, Henry Malvern, Ben Suslow and Milton Schumann. It was released on August 5, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

John Humperdinck Stover, (Jack Pickford) otherwise known as "The Varmint" or "Dink" was expelled from a co-educational boarding school, and was sent to Lawrenceville Academy, a school for boys, famous for its football teams. He confides to a silent individual riding on the coach to the school, on the subject of his past career and the reason why he was expelled from his previous school, a man "Dink" takes to be a traveling salesman and later finds out is the Latin professor, known as the "Roman" (Theodore Roberts).